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Basic Investing in Resource Stocks: The Idiot's Guide by [Robert Moriarty, Jeremy Irwin]

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Worried about losing your shirt on investments in precious metals? Cut through the noise with this simple and direct guide to putting your dollars to work.

Trying to make a decent return on your nest egg but don’t know how? Have you avoided putting resource stocks and bonds in your portfolio because you’re unsure how they work? Want to make your money work harder and smarter? Every month, nearly half a million readers count on author Robert Moriarty’s website for key information on resource investments and mining. Now the experienced investor is here to share his expertise to increase both your confidence and your profit.

Basic Investing in Resource Stocks: The Idiot's Guide is a down-and-dirty approach to help you understand the foundations of the resources sector share markets. Using historical data and his own wins and losses, Moriarty clearly sets out the best way to approach this complex marketplace. Armed with up-to-date knowledge, you’ll soon have a clear understanding of precious metal trends and be ready to invest like a pro.

In Basic Investing in Resource Stocks, you’ll discover:

The state of the current market and how to ensure it makes sense
What expert advice to avoid and which advice will make you money
Various pros and cons of each of the resource stocks and how to use both to your benefit
Why 85-95% of investors lose money and how to make sure you’re not one of them
Helpful hints, tools to simplify the process, and much, much more!

Basic Investing in Resource Stocks is your ultimate handbook for grasping the valuable gold and silver markets. If you like straight-to-the-point advice, easy-to-understand language, and expert tips and techniques, then you’ll love Robert Moriarty’s invaluable tool.

Buy Basic Investing in Resource Stocks to build your confidence and your returns today!

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Robert Moriarty was born in New York state in 1946. He began training as a military pilot in 1965 and became the youngest Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War in 1966. With two years in Vietnam and some 832 missions in combat, he left the Marine Corps in 1970. He worked in computers for a few years before beginning a 2nd career as a ferry pilot delivering small airplanes all over the world. He made over 240 ocean crossings mostly in single engine airplanes.

He and his wife of 30 years were computer consultants and began one of the earliest online computer retail outlets in 1995 before retiring in 2000. He began another career running a financial website in 2001 specializing in resource companies. He continues to travel the world looking for the next great mineral discovery and writes in his spare time.

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David H. Smith

Now is the time to read and apply Bob Moriarty's Basic Investing in Resource Stocks.

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2019

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Bob Moriarty's, Basic Investing in Resource Stocks: The Idiot's Guide, is a text for the investor who wants to reach the top - and stay there. It's a quick study that can - and should - be read multiple times. Catch the "obvious" nuances Bob expresses when he's telling you "war stories" from his own investing history. In self-defense, learning from the mistakes of others is called paying attention to "cautionary tales". In the investment world, it's called learning how to save your financial assets.

The Idiot's Guide reminds me of Miyamoto Musashi's classic "The Book of Five Rings." It's short, crisp, to the point and filled with investment gems, any one of which could place - or help keep you on the path toward a secure financial destiny.

Bob sees and explains with absolute clarity, the panorama of intractable issues the globe is dealing with - socio-political instability, massive indebtedness at all levels, the underappreciated significance of France's Yellow Vests, the Derivatives' time bomb, the penchant for trying to have "a government bigger than you can afford". If you think these things aren't going to cast asunder the fortunes of the majority who've done little or nothing to prepare for the Great Unwinding, then I'm sorry, but you're still out to lunch.

If you pay attention to nothing else, drill down on Bob's explanations of, for your understanding about - Sentiment. It's one of the most important concepts - along with not letting big profits turn into big losses -that he discusses. Right now, most people see, with their eyes wide shut, the evolution of what's destined to become the biggest financial crash and burn of the modern era. And the masses will first sit and watch, then be carried away financially because they didn't go against the prevailing feelings, and prepare when they had the chance, along the lines of what's suggested in The Idiot's Guide.

His chapter "Moriarty's Dozen Rules of Investing" is worth the price of the book - and your time. Sure you've heard some of these rules before, but do you follow them? Just two: "If you don't sell at a profit, the only alternative is to sell at a loss." And: "Profitable investing is simple, but not easy." If it was "easy" you wouldn't need to read this book. Get into the flow of what Bob is talking about, start internalizing and then applying what he's learned over the decades - and in a few years, find yourself at the Winners' Table.

For going on two decades now, Bob Moriarty has - not every time - but consistently over time - made some of the best calls at important market turns of anyone in print. And these calls are verifiable in the archives at 321gold.com, the heavily-visited website he runs with his wife, Barb.

He understands human nature. He understands the markets. And he understands how to clearly explain the interrelationship, without hedging, to anyone of reasonable intelligence. It also helps to have an open mind and a sincere desire to stop getting it wrong and start getting it right (thereby holding onto most of your profits) when it comes to becoming a top-notch investor. Internalize, then decide to apply Bob Moriarty's hard-won wisdom to your own goals and circumstances.

Doing so now or in the near future may be the best - and last - chance you'll get to move to the next financial level, while most of those around you are heading - big time - in the opposite direction. Make the application of what you'll learn from reading Basic Investing in Resource Stocks: The Idiot's Guide, the talisman that transports you well beyond what you ever thought you might someday become

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Joshua J. Hansen

I love this book.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2019

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I believe that I have read something like two hundred books on market psychology, trading, technical analysis, and other such subjects. This book, and Nobody Knows Anything, are two of my favorites. The information is remarkably useful, and the reading is a delight, thanks to the writer's seasoned, cynical perspective on the world. I will also add that Moriarty is an excellent market timer, one of the best to follow on-line for notice of psychological extremes that are apt to precede turning points. My one criticism of his work on his website is that he follows and sometimes involves himself with stocks of companies run by characters who are not among the top ten or twenty owner-operators in the natural-resource business. The good news is that, by reading this book (which includes an account of how managers ran Concentric Energy into the ground) and some of Moriarty's web posts (on his experience with Molori Energy, for example), you can learn from his mistakes and see what 99% of managers are apt to do to their investors. Many of the owner-operators with whom he involves himself are wonderful, however, including Moriarty's close friend Quinton Hennigh (whom I need to apologize for criticizing by way of a suggestion that Hennigh is an example of a brilliant geologist who lacks business sense--Hennigh, and, by extension, Moriarty, have more sense than I and other armchair observers, and I am sorry). In any case, THIS BOOK IS A GEM. Read it, and buy copies for intelligent friends and for family members. It should become an investing classic--and, like Moriarty's other books, it is a lot of fun to read! Once you have finished it, become a regular visitor to Moriarty's site 321gold. It is one of the best sites on the internet for adept, contrarian market timing and for shrewd interpretation of news that most people naively accept at face value.

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Paul

Keep it simple

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019

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Another fine book from Mr. Moriarty, I like his no-nonsense writing style which echoes his approach to investing as well. In plain English, he shows the reader how to not complicate the process of investing, and how we all have all the information we need to be successful in the markets. Indicators such as price ratios between gold and silver are far more useful than an opinion one will find in the financial news. Also, it is not necessary to know every little detail and exactly where the price of something is headed, one only needs to know when something is relatively cheap or relatively expensive.

Besides showing the reader how they can invest with confidence, there are many other interesting insights from Mr. Moriarty, such as ALL DEBTS GET PAID- I never thought of it that way until he explained, that even in a default situation, somebody has paid the debt, it just wasn't the borrower in that case, it was the lender.

This book is particularly useful because of it's timeliness. There is no denying that commodities and resource stocks have underperformed the general stock markets for many years, but as commodities are cyclical, they will also outperform at some point in the future, and possibly very soon. It would be wise to adopt the principles in this book so that they become second nature, as we head into another upturn in most commodities. The best part is his constant reminders to keep it simple, there is absolutely no need to complicate the investment decision-making process.

I look forward to Mr. Moriarty's next book!

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Gary Christenson

This Book Is A Winner

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2019

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Bob Moriarty of 321gold.com wrote another book – Basic Investing in Resource Stocks. We should be thankful for the concise advice delivered in his “take no prisoners” style of writing. He tells it like he has seen it in fifty years of world traveling and investing.

The investing gurus of Wall Street will not like this book, but most of us struggling in the bottom 90% of the financial food chain should read it.

The book explains his investing wisdom and is quick to read. I recommend you spend a few hours and benefit from his experiences and wit.

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Eric

Another very good book from Mr Moriarty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2019

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After having read Moriarty's book 'Nobody knows anything' I immediately ordered this new book. It was not a disappointment and definitely worth its price. I unconditionally recommend this book to be read by all speculators and also by investors. The text in the printed version is comfortably big even for my old eyes. The book is very easy to read and presents essential points in speculation (~trading) among others about when to sell positions. I give four stars as I want to make a difference to the earlier book. Both books are 'a must to read'.

Bryan

Like reading air

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2022

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An awful book, which I returned. Yes, it was a cheap book, but nobody likes to waste money

SW

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2019

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Another brilliant book written by Bob from 321gold. Highly recommended!

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firemagi

Finally an investing book that actually makes you think!

Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2019

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I've been an energy and mining investor for about 15 years. I've made very, very good money twice and lost everything twice. I've read many books on investing and know all about charts, indicators, clever strategies, et al, but never truly felt like they taught me anything consistently useful. I heard good things about "Basic Investing in Resource Stocks" as well as "Nobody Knows Anything", which is Robert Moriarty's previous book, so I thought I'd give them both a read.

There's nothing complicated or obscure about his writing style which is fine by me so long as there's content and, yes, there was plenty of content. Instead of filling the pages with dribble, he got down to the meat and potatoes of making money. Much of it I had known for years, but the funny thing is that I just didn't realize how fundamental it was. Then there were a few gems that I guess I sort of knew, but just didn't actually know that I knew. In short, both of these books got me thinking, but most importantly, they got me thinking for myself! In fact they got me thinking well beyond the content of the books! There's no magic to flipping a switch, but the resulting light can appear like a miracle. This is the effect of simplicity and why I appreciate these books so much.

I bought both books at the same time and after reading "Nobody Knows Anything" (published 2016) I dove right into "Basic Investing in Resource Stocks" (published 2019). Moriarty wrote these two books separately, but one flows into the other and they meld together so well that I really can't write separate reviews. I wonder if the publisher will ever decide to publish them together as one edition. It seems like an obvious discussion that has probably occurred already. I will post this same review for "Nobody Knows Anything" since the two books really do belong together and provide equally valuable insight in the same manner, although they are each very capable as stand-alone reads.

I just received another book by Robert Moriarty, "The Art of Peace" (published 2016). It's seems more of an autobiography than an investment book, but I'm grateful for the two that I've already read so finding out more about the author should be interesting.

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Nigel, BC, Canada

Great Read, Wish I had this information 30 years ago.

Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2020

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I bought this book because of the reviews I read here. I was not disappointed. Bob Moriarty has a unique writing style and keeps the reader engaged, with a good few chuckles thrown in for good measure.

I found this to be a no B.S. book on how the investment industry works, and doesn't. The book is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the stock market and at some of those in the industry that make it work, and some of those that don’t.

His Dozen Rules of Investing are worth the price of the book and more alone.

If you are new to trading then you will find this to be especially useful information, helping to avoid the pitfalls that most traders fall into. You will learn from Bob that not everything is, as it is told. He will teach you how investments work, and how to protect yourself from those who would legally steal your money from you given the opportunity.

I liked the way he covered the resource sector, and categorized the companies, great for making watch lists. His methods for handling risk and dealing with profits and losses made me rethink how I will handle my trades. One too many times the big ones slipped away, just from not knowing when to take some money off the table, or cut my loss. I wish I had this information 30 years ago.

Read the rest of the reviews here, and you, like me will be glad you bought this book.

I am eagerly awaiting a follow up to this book, as I am very curious as to what he has to say about the present state of things in the world today. (April 2020). I am sure it will be as colorful and entertaining as this book has been.

Cheers

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